Improvement in cultivators



' F. VEAL.

Cultivatdr.

Patented June 21, .1859.

4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN VEAL, OF HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT'IN CULTIVATORS.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 24,507, dated June 21, 1859.

' panying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a cultivator constructed according to my invention.-

Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of one of the arms with the plowshare attached to it. Fig. 4 is a front view of the same with the share removed.

Similar letters of reference in the several figures indicate corresponding parts.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is the main beam, to which two angular beams, B, are attached, so as to form an angle of about thirty degrees with each other, as clearly represented in Fig. 2, and the rear ends of the several beams are connected by braces O; and secured to the top of the beam A are the handles D, the pointed end of which is confined in a staple, a, by means of a wedge, I), which is secured in the end of the fork formed where the handles unite. The position of the handles is strengthened by two braces, E E, which are secured to the angular beams B by means of flanges c, which fit over the square ends of two of the arms F, which support the plowshares G.. A second staple, a, is attached to the main beam A, similar to the staple a, and on the opposite end of the same, and the several arms F are so arranged on the angular beams B that the handles, together with the braces, can be reversed, and that when the pointed end of the handles is secured in the staple a the braces E E fit again over two of the arms F. These arms are secured to the beams by means'of two branches, f f, both being provided with square ends'of equal size, so that they fit into the same socket, g, in the beams, and that the arms can be attached to the beams facing either way, and the square ends of the branches f of the several arms extend through the beams, and pins or wedges h, which pass through suitable holes in their upper ends, serve to secure the same to the beams.

The plowshares G are secured to the arms F by means of dovetailed project-ions i, (see Fig. 3,) which are attached to the under sides of the shares, and one of which fits into a slot,

j, in the under end of the arms F, (see Fig. 4,) while the other one is secured in a recess, k, by means of a plug, 1. Both the slot j and the recess 70 are of equal width, and their sides are shaped so as to correspond to the dovetailed projections i, and the plug L fits into a groove, 1, which extends across the whole width of the arm close under the recess is, which terminates in the same, and which is of such a length that the projections t are firmly confined therein by the plugs l.

The shares G are provided with two cutting edges, one above and one below, and if one of them becomes dull it is very easy to turn the same upside down, the projections c being arranged at precisely equal distances from both cutting-edges, so that a new and sharp cutting-edge can be brought into use whenever it should be desirable. This is of particular advantage in new land, where one of the shares may become dull by running into a stone or block of wood, whereby the operation is interrupted, or, at least, its progressnot desirable before a new cutting-edge can be brought into use.

This cultivator is adapted to furrowing or to running between the rows or hills, if set as represented in Figs. 2 and 3, the diverging ends of the beams B pointing forward or it may be reversed by securing the handles in the staple a and by reversing the arms F, and if in this case the forward share, G, is taken out, the cultivator straddles one row, and it is fit for hillingor weeding between the growing crops.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-.-

' Arranging the dovetailed projections i at equal distances from the cutting-edges of the shares, in combination with the slots j and recesses 7c in the arms, for the purpose of securing the shares to the arms and to render them reversible, substantially as described.

FRANKLIN VEAL.

Witnesses A. K. Faos'rnn, T. A. HESTER. 

